Fallout continues 70 years after British atomic tests
Seventy years ago Yami Lester was playing outside with his friends at Wallatinna Station in remote South Australia...
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The Secret of Emu Field: Britain's forgotten atomic tests in Australia
When we recall the British atomic bomb tests in Australia, most of us think of Maralinga, still a byword for imperial indifference to Country and people. Few remember Emu Field – even though, as Elizabeth Tynan shows, the 1953 Totem 1 and Totem 2 detonations there manifested an almost identical hubris.
Source: thesaturdaypaper.com.au
'This black smoke rolling through the mulga': almost 70 years on, it's time to remember the atomic tests at Emu Field
The British atomic tests at Emu Field in South Australia pre-dated Maralinga by three years. Largely forgotten, they remind us the costs of harmful political decisions are borne by the most powerless.
Source: theconversation.com